Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many health visitors have worked in the NHS on average in each of the last 10 years.

The information is based on the monthly National Health Service workforce statistics published by NHS England available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics

The data includes staff employed by NHS trusts and other core NHS organisations and will therefore exclude staff directly employed by primary care, general practitioner surgeries, local authorities, and other providers such as community interest companies and private providers.

Local authorities have been responsible for commissioning health visiting services since 2015. These services may be commissioned from NHS trusts as well as other providers.

We do not hold staffing information for non-NHS providers.